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| Our son, Jon came home for Christmas! |
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| We had family over for Christmas Eve. We ate Prime Rib, cooked by MIL and sister, with all the added goodies of green bean casserole, rolls, mashed potatoes and gravy and of course all the Christmas goodies. |
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| This is my brother's girlfriend and she's holding up a hook rug that Cortney made for her for Christmas. |
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| This is my brother and his girlfriend who came over to spend Christmas day with Mike, Cortney, myself and our son. We ate ham and leftover trimmings from Christmas eve. Everyone had a good time and we felt so very blessed to have our son come home for Christmas. |
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| Okay this is my Christmas gift in the process of being refurbished. It's a Majestic wood/ coal stove with a water reservoir. Mike and our friend Charlie are rebuilding, re-bricking and replacing the refractory clay on top of the oven. They are also relining the water reservoir with stainless steel( our water corrodes steel so bad) and adding a warming shelf for me. I'm thrilled, for obvious reasons, this stove has a water reservoir and an oven twice the size of our current wood cook stove and it is set up to burn coal as well as wood. The other really special reason is that this stove belonged to our friend Charlie's wife's grandmother so I feel so privileged to be entrusted with all of their family heritage in this stove. |
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| The firebox door is slated to be removed, sand blasted and painted with stove paint before replacing, but most likely I'll load the wood and lump coal from the top anyway. Look at the size of that oven door!, and the oven enamel is in really nice shape( didn't get a picture of the inside of oven) |
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| The water reservoir is coated with hard water build up but is water tight. Mike and Charlie are thinking of lining it with stainless steel, once Mike gets all the hard water scale cleaned off they'll talk about it more then. I'm so excited to get this stove installed and operational( for sure for next winter) :o) |
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| This is one of several pieces of jewlery Cortney designed and made for Christmas gifts. I was even gifted with a beautiful necklace and bracelet( will post pictures soon) for my Christmas gift. This particular set was designed for one of Cortney's Grandmothers( my Mom) All gifts aside "Our Best" Christmas gift was the return of our son! I hope your Christmas's were as full of blessing as ours was! Blessing to each who read this blog post in the coming week and throughout 2012. |
16 comments:
How exciting to get a wood stove! Merry Christmas :0) from Julia,
in New Zealand
SO Happy to hear that things are better with your son and you. That truly is a blessing. May 2012 have many blessings in store for you! Happy New Year
Happy to hear that you had a lovely Christmas.
It is good that you get to see your son for the holidays.
Cool stove!
What wonderful gifts, especially your son with you! And I can't wait to see what that wood stove looks like when it's finished....pictures will be included, right? :)
That was a blessing, having your son for Christmas. Things are looking up. lol.
Love the stove. I'm looking for one for me right now too.
Julia,
Thank you for commenting, I've missed that. The wood stove is the second best gift, right behind our son coming home :o)
Alla,
So good to hear from you and yes it was such a surprise we had no idea, he just rode out with Mike's Mom and sister. It was a day filled with tears, but for a change happy ones*wink* Hope your Christmas was wonderful too. How are you doing and what have you been up to? You can email me at kellemt@yahoo.com, I'd LOVE to hear from you! A few months back my computer died and we lost everything, but a few emails we were able to retrieve, but I lost yours :o( Thanks for commenting, it made my day!
Cathy,
Thank you and I hope yours was wonderful too! Family is the nicest word there is, don't you think?
Mark,
Thanks for stopping in to chat, I've missed that so much. Yes, our son coming home was such a blessing, after being astranged for over a year and it was a surprise, he just showed up!
I love the stove and can't wait to get it all refurbished and installed for use, not that I don't love the wood cook stove I already have or anything*wink* Hope your Christmas was good as well.
Carolyn,
It won't be put into place until summer, I'm sure but... you can bet your booties there will be pictures of the whole process of removing our current wood cookstove and installing this beauty! Thanks for stopping by to say hello!
Blessings,
Kelle
It is good to hear from you. I was getting worried.
I am glad all is well and I love the stove.
So glad to see your post! I can imagine you were thrilled to have your son home!! Can't wait to see your stove when it's completed! It will be wonderful I bet!! ...debbie
Glad to see your post and what wonderful blessings, your son and a "new" wood stove. I do believe I have wood stove envy! We have missed you. Blessings for the New Year, Kat
I'm so glad you had a Blessed Christmas and hope your New Year is just as Blessed.
I can't believe you have MY stove! We bought one just like it this past spring but I didn't have any idea what the name of it was. Does yours have the shelf that sits on the back?
I'm so glad to hear that you had such a blessed Christmas! The stove is awesome!
Oh Kelle, Kelle, Kelle!! God is soooooo good!!!!!!! I'm sending you the biggest hug ever and it doesn't have to travel as far this time! ;0) I'll try and get a letter in the mail to you soon!
So glad to hear about your son's surprise homecoming! What a blessing!
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Good to see you back online. Praise that your son came home for Christmas. I understand how much that meant to you!
I wish you a Merry Christmas & Happy New year. May you be showered with lot of joy and presents wroth like Sapphire Rings .
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